The Federal Opposition is indicating it will not pass legislation to set up Prime Minister Julia Gillard's health reforms, even if state Liberal leaders support it.

Ms Gillard admitted yesterday much of the agreement's details will be sorted out over coming months and much of the deal will need federal parliamentary approval.

Opposition health spokesman Peter Dutton says even though state and territory leaders are supporting the deal, it may not be in the interests of the nation.

"Liberal premiers obviously have driven a good deal for their states, in terms of particularly the amount of money that they are receiving from the Commonwealth, and premiers would be right to sign under those circumstances," he said.

"Our responsibility at a federal level is to make sure that the federal policy is appropriate, and I suspect that as the weeks go by people will realise that Julia Gillard has done a deal more for political purposes than for health reform.

"I think that's a missed opportunity from the Commonwealth's perspective."

Mr Dutton would not commit to passing legislation on the health reform in Parliament.

"We'll make decisions that we believe are in the best interests of the Australian taxpayer and the Australian patient," he said.

"We don't believe under this deal that when the 50-50 arrangement comes in it will provide anything like what people are expecting at the moment."

He says the Opposition will have to carefully consider any legislation.

"Our objective will be to get Australian taxpayers good value for the services that they provide to Australian patients and that's the objective that we've always had," he said.

"We'll continue to be critical of the fact that there's no mental health or aged care plan as part of this so-called health reform."

Mr Dutton says the Opposition will not put forward an alternative policy, but will continue to work on their current package.

"Our job is to hold the Government to account and to provide our own policy," he said.

"We'll do that, as is the normal practice, in the run up to the next election.

"At the moment the Government's got their failed plan, I believe, on the table, and our job is to make sure that we can try and improve that as best we can."